AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
February 11, 2016
Liam Mannix
Reporter
Call them the ‘Physicians for the comfort of George Pell’.
Dr Richard Sallie, a West Australian doctor, has been taking volunteers for a small medical team.
Their offer: a praetorian guard of personal physicians who could safely see Cardinal George Pell through the flight from Rome to appear before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Cardinal Pell, 74, has been granted permission by the Commission to appear by video link in lieu of a personal appearance, because he is too sick to fly.
In a letter published in Fairfax Media newspapers Dr Sallie offered his expertise to help the Cardinal get home.
Reached in Western Australia, Dr Sallie admitted he was something of a veteran newspaper letter writer – his own mother even receives death threats, presumably meant for him, from time to time.
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